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Type: White Wine
Country: Portugal
Region: Douro Valley
Code: POCA405
A wine made from white indigenous Douro varieties source from the highest zones (600 meters) in Quinta de Vale de Cavalos to assure freshness, on a transition between granite and schist soil. The ageing in second year French “Allier” oak casks gives this wine complexity and structure

Specification

Producer

Poças Júnior

In 1918, a few months before the Armistice, Manoel Domingues Poças Júnior, who had been born in the heart of the Port Wine hustle and bustle, decided to establish his own company. Manoel Poças was 30 years old and he had some experience in this business. With his uncle, he created a company to sell grape spirits to large Port Wine shippers. Soon afterwards he opened a head office in Vila Nova de Gaia, where they remain to this day. Today, with three quintas in the best winemaking areas of the Douro Demarcated Region, Poças ensures its total control over the quality of its wines and the family is more involved than ever before.

Tasting Notes

On the nose this wine is floral, with citric and yellow stone fruit notes. On the palate it is very involving in the mouth, with well-integrated wood where the notes of yellow stone fruit reappear

Food Matches

Goes specially well with grouper “massada” (pasta), seafood rice, bacalhau à brás (crumbled codfish, potatoes and eggs), asparagus risotto

Vinification

Grape selection is done in the field and harvested manually from vines aged 10-20 years old. The wine is aged: 30% matures for 6 months in second year French “Allier” oak casks with 300 litres, with “batônnage” of fine lees.

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